CASUALTY LIST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 251, 5 August 1941, Page 6

CASUALTY LIST

TOTAL OF 104 PRISONERS. OTHERS REPORTED WOUNDED. TWO COUNTY MEN IN GREECE. A casualty list issued last night contains; the names of one man died of sickness; : one missing,' previously repotted wounded; and the following confirmed by the Red Cross at Geneva as prisoners of war, all in Greece hut the first number mentioned: Ten 1 pre--1 viously reported killed in action; two previously reported presumed by Court of Inquiry to be killed in action; eight previously reported died of wounds; 92 previously reported missing. The Red Cross reports one man a prisoner in Greece. Other notifications are: One Wounded and missing, one wounded remaining on missing list, and one wounded. The following list gives the death from sickness and # the Canterbury names in other classifications, one Ashburton man and one Mayfield man being among the number: Died of Sickness. Wilkin, John Claverly. Mrs A. A. Wilkin, Wellington, mother. The Red Cross at Geneva confirm the following as prisoners of war in Greece, previously reported pre-. sumed by Court of Inquiry to be killed in action: Manning, Lawrence Frank. Mrs A. Manning, Hawarden, mother.

Geneva confirms the following as prisoners of war in Greece, previously reported missing:

Anderson, lan, Gnr. Mrs B. E. Anderson, Mayfield, wife. Bailey, Alan Walter. Mrs E. S. Bailey, Tirnaru, mother. Barber, Walter Macdonald. Mr J. Barber, Christchurch, father. Carson, Stanley Edgar, Spr. Mrs L. M. Carson, Lyttelton, mother. Craig, William Allan, Temp. L-Cpl. Mrs A. Craig, Timaru, mother. Flintoff, Ronald William, Bomb. Mrs M. E. Flintoff, Rangiora, wife. Gauction, Thomas David. Mrs S. Gaudion, Christchurch, mother. Harper, Herbert Sydney, Gnr. Mrs J* vEarpery Christchurch, mother. Heseltine, Reginald Thwaites. Mr A. T. • Heseltine, Ashburton, father. Minogue, William Martin. Mrs E. E. Minogoe, Christchurch, mother. Muff, Dudley Roberts, Temp. L.-Cpl. Mrs W. Pollard, Christchurch, mother. Romeril, William George, Spr. Mr A. : : E. Romeril, Christchurch, father. Sutherland, Eric William Arnold, ” Temp. Cpl. Mrs A. Sutherland, Christchurch, mother. Tideman, Norman Alfred. Mrs F'. R. Tideman, Christchurch, mother. Buckley,'Robert Campbell, Gnr, Mrs L. S. Buckley, Christchurch, wife. # Red Cross at Geneva reports the following prisoner of war in Greeoe: Pyke, Eric Gibson. Mrs M. R. Pyke, Christchurch, wife. / f air CASUAUTIES. ONE MAN KILLED IN ACTION. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 4. ( The following Air Force casualties are officially announced:—

''Sergeant Allan Douglas Scott, R.N.Z. A.F., missing on operations. Mother Mrs Scott, Hamilton. Sergeant Jack Maney, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs M. Maney, Auckland. Sergeant Mervyn Evans, _ D.F.M., R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Father, Mr D. P. Evans, New * Plymouth. Pilot Officer George Montgomerie \ Marshall, R.N.Z.A.F., killed in action. Father, Mr G. L. Marshall, Marton. Sergeant Haydn Neil Guymer, R.N.Z. A.F. Missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs E. Guymer, Wellington. pilot Officer Donald Brook, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on operations. Father, Mr H. Brook, Wellington. Sergeant Edward Campbell McDonald, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air opera; f ■ tions. Mother, Mrs A. G. McDonald, Buckland Beach, Auckland. Sergeant Ivan Fenton Waugh, R.N.Z.A.F., \ missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs E. Waugh, Otahuhu. Sergeant Donald Frederick Streeter, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs E. Streeter, i Wellington. Sergeant Graham Francis Breckon, R.N;Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Father, Mr F. W. Breckon, Auckland. Sergeant Robert Gordon Mills, R.N.Z. A.F., previously reported dangerously injured, now; reclassified removed from seriously ill list, and progressing satisfactorily. Father, Mr I. M. Mills, Hamilton. •/Sergeant Graham Stuart Walker, R.N.Z.A.F., missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs W. Reid, Te 1 Kuiti. Pilot Officer Morrison Jolly, missing on air operations. Mother, Mrs A. £ Jolly, Wallacetown. Death Presumed. The Air Ministry announces that in the case of the following personnel, previously reported missing, death is now officially presumed: — Sergeant Walter Alexander Watts, R.N.Z.A.F. Mother, Mrs E. Watts, Alexandra. Sergeant Frederick Jack Newman, R.N.Z.A.F. Father, Mr C. M. New- | man, Auckland. (Pilot Officer Gilbert Theodore Kimberley, R.N.Z.A.F. Father, Archdeaeofi 0. J. Kimberley, Nelson,